Everard Storage Warehouse

275 West 10th Street | also 667 Washington Street, 277 West 10th Street | West Village | built 1895

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Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1885

    James Everard's brewery stands on this corner before the warehouse

    According to Daytonian in Manhattan, Everard's brewery occupied the northeast corner of West 10th and Washington Streets. It began in 1885 as Shook & Everard, making ales and porter, and had become James Everard's Breweries by 1893, with 35 workers on a 59-hour week. Everard moved production to East 133rd Street and demolished the old brewery to make room for a warehouse. This was an earlier building on the site.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1895

    August 24

    Everard completes what the Record & Guide calls the city's finest storage warehouse

    In August 1895 the Record & Guide reported that brewer James Everard had finished his warehouse at Washington and West 10th Streets, a project first estimated at $250,000. The magazine praised its fireproof construction of stone, brick and steel, with floors rated to carry 400 pounds per square foot. It called the building the best located, built and arranged storage house in the city.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1895

    Martin V. B. Ferdon gives the warehouse a granite arcade and a rooftop lookout tower

    Architect Martin V. B. Ferdon designed the Romanesque Revival warehouse with a two-story arcaded base of rough granite and a gently curved corner. Brick pilasters and tall arches rise through the middle floors, and pediments on the cornice spelled out the owner's name, EVERARD. A tower on the curve of the cornice gave unobstructed views over the city and the Hudson, though it was lost at some point.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1909

    December

    The brewer's 18-year-old daughter elopes with Everard's chauffeur

    In December 1909 newspapers reported that Olga Everard, only daughter of the warehouse's builder, had married William Williams in Greenwich, Connecticut, days after turning 18. Williams had originally been James Everard's chauffeur and was described as her mother's secretary. Everard threatened to disinherit her but relented and made his son-in-law his private secretary. After Everard died in 1913 Olga inherited the building, divorced Williams the next year and married the actor Robert Hilliard.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  5. 1978

    Rockrose converts the warehouse into apartments

    By 1974 the Rockrose Development Company was asking the Board of Standards and Appeals to turn the former storage warehouse into housing with two ground-floor stores, which required a zoning map change. The board approved, and architect Bernard Rothzeid's conversion was finished in 1978, with twelve apartments per floor at first. A later renovation cut that to three, four or seven per floor and made two duplex units on parts of the 11th and 12th floors.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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